Hide Article Text (OCR)
19 SOLDIERS AT WARSAW |C DIE WITHOUT INSURANCEAn Investigation Is Made by the War Department at WashingtonNO BLAME IS ATTACHEDW AbHiN lt;_i TO N Jan 4—Nineteen soldiers stationed at Camp W mona Warsaw died during the recent m fluenza epidemic without insurance and cts a result a thorough imestiga tion h'iA been made hv the wai de rmriment It has been found how*-ever tiiat no blame is to be at tached to anj one There vfft*. no negligence it is reported and t\ liilo | j the Incident was exceedingly regret table th*re was no wa* of guarding against itThe Lolociel under whose direction the investigation was made has made the following explanation of the si* nation at WarsawThe men and the influenza ar rued at Warsaw simultaneously In fact some of them had it before thev arrived Because of their condition ii wafc impossible to give them the examinations required under the war .risk lav and they consequent!* died Nwithout having properh made apph cation for insurance I tv as informed thu the officer commanding the men arrived about fortv eight hours after the men had arrived but I am sure that even if hi. had been theie when thev arrived he could not have |re vented what happened The whole thing is an exceedwglv regrettable incident But it mu*l be remembered that we lost more men through the influenza than we did b\ bullets \ i tiling h is been made b\ the uar Ti*K Insurance bureau that none of the relatives is entitled iegfl.11* to insurance although officials of the bureau believe that mo rail v benefits are due the relatives An effort being made to find a legal method compensating the dead soldiers families Senator New conferred cO da with war department officials and probablj wil* introduce a bill granting specif iosaran.ee to the dependents994 Arrive in One Day -v total force of 8B4 draft recruits arrived at Camp Winona Warsaw October 15 The commanding officer for the camp Captain Ostermmer was not assigned to the camp until October l'v the day the men arrived and did not get there until Octobet IS although a lieutenant armerl Oc tober 16 Lntil the milun.rv officers arrived the men were taken care of b the Cnamber of Commerce and another man not an officer who had • been sent b the government The nineteen men who died and who were unprotected b insurance and the dates of their death wereAlfred Shelter oss October 4 Eric Hobson October James H Williams October ~o Everett ftapp October 26 John L \\ llscm October 26 Hoy Hess October Z Herbert Barker October °7 Robert J ,ki\ millei October 28 Leonard Fatter eon October 28 W allace R Barbour October 29 Clarence H Messznan ? October 29 Harvev E McKnight I October 30 Cecil 'VTaddocks Octobei £ 31 Howard Stoop November 1 Jesse f, B Hoover November 4 Arthur B Trosln November 5 Charles .T \tc Collv November II Lari Rav Hun ter November 13A
Newspaper Details
Fort Wayne News and Sentinel
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Sat, Jan 04, 1919
Page 20
Full Page
Clipped by
Anonymous
IN, USA 30 Mar 2020
Other Publications Near Fort Wayne, Indiana
Fort Wayne Daily News
Fort Wayne Daily Gazette
Fort Wayne Daily Democrat
Dawsons Fort Wayne Weekly Times
Dawsons Fort Wayne Daily Times
